Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He crept slowly towards the main corridors . |
| 2 | Dom Pérignon cared little for the wooden plugs wrapped in oil-soaked hemp which were in use during his time . |
| 3 | Yanto 's mind was busy as he meandered slowly through the leafy lanes towards Purton . |
| 4 | At All Souls he read widely in the Early Fathers . |
| 5 | Any compilation is going to be a shallow thing redeemed only by the actual songs on it . |
| 6 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 7 | It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away . |
| 8 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 9 | To all whom this epistle shall come , Greetings — Whereas we have been credibly informed by our well-beloved subject the right honourable Lord Clovelly , of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk , and on behalf of our well-beloved subject Christopher Everard , Gentleman , that the said Christopher Everard hath lately discovered several Islands in the Hesperidean seas towards the continent of America , the one called Saint Thomas 's , alias Everhope ( though this be error ) , or in the native tongue Liamuiga , and another , as the savages of those parts name it , Oualie ; that we are further informed that these said Islands are possessed and inhabited only by the aforementioned savages and heathen people , and are not , nor at the time of the discovery were , in the possession or under the government of any Christian Prince , state or potentate , and thereupon the said Christopher Everard , being set forth and supplied on our shores for that purpose , made entry into the said Islands for and on behalf of our dear Father in heaven , and hath since with the consent and good liking of the natives made some beginning of a plantation and colony and likewise of an hopeful trade there , and hath caused divers of our subjects of this realm to remove themselves to the said Islands with purpose to proceed in so hopeful a work : KNOW THEREFORE that the said Lord Clovelly and Christopher Everard may be encouraged and the better enabled with the more ample maintenance and authority to effect the same , We do command the said Christopher Everard to be possessed of the said Islands and all our other loving subjects under him : And of our especial great and certain knowledge have given and granted unto the said Christopher Everard during our pleasure custody of the aforesaid Islands and of every creature , man , woman and child upon them together with full power and authority for us and in our name and as our Lieutenant to govern rule and order all . |
| 10 | The President gazed thoughtfully at the two dispatches lying on his desk . |
| 11 | The small twelfth-century edifice , built right above the steep cliffs that dominate the northern beaches of France , and the cemetery with its hundred tombs and crosses are in harmony with Braque 's colors . |
| 12 | Boyd Orr 's malnourished population was drawn almost entirely from this section of the working class and it was their lives which changed little during the inter-war years as Carl Chinn , and other writers have noted . |
| 13 | He wanted ‘ the greatest value in the smallest compass ’ ; he wanted an animal that weighed most in the best cuts and that quickly repaid the outlay on its food . |
| 14 | Shadows drifted past him like fronds , dappled with refracted sunlight , tied with thin streams of bubbles as he sank slowly into the welcoming depths of the ocean , under the incurious eye of the great Whale … . |
| 15 | She helped monks to resettle Iona in the west , and in the east contributed lavishly towards the religious houses of St Andrews on their breezy promontory above the North Sea . |
| 16 | He held another Council in May 1108 on the same model as the last , with a similar representation of lay magnates , but on this occasion he concentrated entirely on the administrative problems arising from his earlier decree against clerical marriage . |
| 17 | They prodded the snowy tussocks and peered doubtfully into the gloomy holes under the hedge , while the flakes continued to fall in a soft , crackly silence . |
| 18 | Sometimes it was known as the Char because of its sign — a crude but unmistakable painting of that fish found only in the deepest lakes — Buttermere being one — and already considered a fashionable delicacy in London . |
| 19 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 20 | Until recently , little was known about the tiny and endearing Hector 's dolphin , found only in the coastal waters of New Zealand . |
| 21 | This referred less to the irreligious habits of the people than the fact that the village as yet contained no place of worship , for Wesley went on to say that when he began his service ( probably at a spot near the present Ulster Bank and using a mounting block as his pulpit ) ‘ the people gathered form all sides and , when I prayed , kneeled down upon the stones , rich and poor , all round me ’ . |
| 22 | The car , already slowed to a crawl , stopped halfway through the open gates . |
| 23 | To his right the ground rose gently towards the southern cliffs and he could see the dark mouth of a concrete pillbox , undemolished since the war , and as seemingly indestructible as the great hulks of wave-battered concrete , remnants of the old fortifications which lay half-submerged in the sand along part of the beach . |
| 24 | Depending on the region and year , there were between one and sixteen cattle thefts reported annually for every 10,000 inhabitants ( Table 3.1 ) . |
| 25 | " They 've got away , " he said and moved swiftly to the french windows . |
| 26 | Her eyes flickered momentarily between the two men then she pulled open the door and hurried inside . |
| 27 | Once I had said my thanks and farewells to William and to the immense policeman who had silently accompanied us throughout the afternoon , I headed away down the rutted tracks , rather glad to be back on the road and off back to Panama City . |
| 28 | So these people moved away into the Pennine valleys . |
| 29 | After that , his senses remained strained and alert for several hundred paces , but there was no more hint of a shadow , and as he moved away from the busier streets he became increasingly confident that he was alone . |
| 30 | He began as a rock climber , opening new routes on the Provencal ‘ super-cliff ’ of Ceuse , and entered enthusiastically into the athletic rigours of the new generation of sport climbers . |